Digressions In Classical Historiography
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Digressions in Classical Historiography
Author | : Mario Baumann,Vasileios Liotsakis |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2024-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783111320908 |
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Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. Ancient historiographers traditionally took as digressions the cases in which they interrupted their focused chronological narration. Such cases include lengthy geographical descriptions, prolepses or analepses, and authorial comments. Ancient historiographers rarely deign to interrupt their narration's main storyline with excursuses which are flagrantly disconnected from it. Instead, they often "coat" their digressions with distinctive patterns of their own thinking, thus rendering them ideological and thematic milestones within an entire work. Furthermore, digressions may constitute pivotal points in the very structure of ancient historical narratives, while ancient historians also use excursuses to establish a dialogue with their readers and to activate them in various ways. All these aspects of digressions in Greco-Roman historiography are studied in detail in the chapters of this volume.
Digressions in Classical Historiography
Author | : Mario Baumann, Vasileios Liotsakis |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2024-04-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783111321158 |
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Rhetoric in Classical Historiography
Author | : A.J. Woodman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135785215 |
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Professor Woodman's radical study argues against the view that the historian's craft has remained largely unchanged since classical times. A thought-provoking discussion of ancient historiographical theory.
Sallust and the Fall of the Republic
Author | : Edwin Shaw |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2021-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004501737 |
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This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust: it reads his works as complex and engaged contributions to the intellectual life of his period, offering a coherent and contemporary perspective on the end of the Roman Republic.
Reconfiguring the Imperial Past Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian s History of the Empire
Author | : Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2022-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004516922 |
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This book argues that Herodian uses an orderly and coherent historiographical form to reconfigure and explicate a most chaotic period of Roman history. Through patterning he offers a distinctive interpretative framework in which successive reigns and individual emperors need to be read in a dovetailed way.
A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography
Author | : John Marincola |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 697 |
Release | : 2010-12-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781444393828 |
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This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades. Comprises a series of cutting edge articles written by recognised scholars Presents broad, chronological treatments of important issues in the writing of history and antiquity These are complemented by chapters on individual genres and sub-genres from the fifth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. Provides a series of interpretative readings on the individual historians Contains essays on the neighbouring genres of tragedy, biography, and epic, among others, and their relationship to history
The Art of History
Author | : Vasileios Liotsakis,Scott Farrington |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110496055 |
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A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against various elements of the material (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studies are beginning to elaborate on the stylistic and narrative qualities of the texts themselves. The present volume offers a fine collection of essays that on the whole emphasize the literary dimensions of the ancient Greek and Roman historians. Offering narratological, linguistic, and theoretical approaches to historiography, the contributors of the book elaborate on the intersections between historiography and other literary genres, the literary manipulation of military events and the criteria of selectivity, the reception of ancient historical texts in other genres, time and space in historical narrative, and plenty of other relevant topics. The shared belief of the authors is that there is a close interrelation between the literary features and the scientific value of ancient Greek and Roman historiography.
In Search of History
Author | : John Van Seters |
Publsiher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1575060132 |
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The primary concern of the book is to understand the origins and nature of history-writing in ancient Israel. The investigation is undertaken against the background of history-writing in the Near Eastern and classical worlds. Professor Van Seters begins with a broad survey of all the historiographic material relevant for the study of Israel's own writing of history. He then turns his attention to the question of Israel's historiography by focusing particularly on the Deuteronomistic Historian, the first Israelite historian.